BTS needs to be promoted as a tool of freedom that it is. It needs to develop its own mini economy of people that are passionate about a common goal. Unfortunately, growing a community in such a manner is much slower than most would like.
I try and promote this as "Why save in USD in your Bank of America account when you can save diversified in Gold, Silver, Oil, USD etc with BitShares" or "Are you concerned about your currency being devalued or bail-ins? Try crypto and bank on yourself."
I think its a mistake to get too political. Look how poorly the libertarians do in elections these days. For some reason people dont care about liberty so much as what they think they're entitled to. The US is becoming a police state yet no one protested after snowdon's revelations, but they sure did in Berlin, Germany. Not in DC though.
I agree. At the same time Bitshares has to just work, and the bond market feature is missing which is perhaps more important to mass adoption than any other.
BTS needs to be promoted as a tool of freedom that it is. It needs to develop its own mini economy of people that are passionate about a common goal.
Unfortunately, growing a community in such a manner is much slower than most would like.
A lot of people don't know what freedom is, and only half of Americans own stocks. Maybe focus on the half of Americans who don't own any stocks. Most Americans don't own any equity and you don't really have to appeal to ideology other than to look at the demographics that dont own and show them an easy way to acquire equity.
Maybe gamers for example who spend all day getting some digital item can now own digital property and acquire real wealth. This is an opportunity that never existed before for gamers or for people of the millennial demographic.
Focusing on politics is a mistake because a lot of young people aren't political or they just don't like politics. People see politics are involved and often run away from it because a lot of people don't want to have to deal with what comes along with politics, the risk of their lives being destroyed, the risk of upsetting the status quo. I think politics really limit the potential of any project when it's put into the branding of the project and it is why Bitcoin is replaced by Blockchain.
The reasoning being that most Americans aren't anarchists. Most Americans misunderstand what anarchist means, they don't have to be libertarians, they could be mainstream independents, or Bernie Sanders supporters, and still use an app if it's in their self interest. Why not appeal to self interest?
Yes it's definitely slower than most would like, as with any real change to the status quo, but for the first time in history the tools are within reach.
As far as I'm concerned, BitShares is like a gift from beyond for any community which has ever dreamed of creating a local currency, or has wished for a way to leverage their collective economic power, e.g., co-ops.
However, even if you've spent your whole life fighting for economic justice you could be forgiven for not noticing that there is a viable solution just within reach. A new paradigm technology such as the Graphene Toolkit is not immediately identifiable as a solution since it is literally unprecedented, even within the crypto space.
Within the United States alone the grocery co-op movement transacts billions of dollars annually, and is itself a tiny fraction of a much larger international co-op movement which is in the trillions. This is a group of people which absolutely see eye to eye on the principles which animate BitShares.
Measuring the Size and Scope of the Cooperative EconomyIs there incentive to provide access to a network which facilitates interconnected micro economies of member benefits / rewards points / gift cards / equity, to benefit participating merchants and clients alike?
Moving beyond the institutions themselves to the communities of which they are comprised; you can see a huge swath of people, of every political persuasion, who identify with some pretty basic ideas. We're not trying to win elections, we're going to change the way elections are run, the whole conversation is changing. Let's not just sell 'stocks' or BitAssets, we should be selling access to the goods, the party,
and freedom. As Timothy Leary famously said, "When we say party, we mean party and celebration, the old party's just no fun."
There are large swaths of people whose consciousness, and economic interests are already aligned with what BitShares represents.
The tech exists, and the toolkit is steadily evolving through the hard work of a passionate and dedicated team.
We're just beginning to push out into all manner of synergistic projects, together as a community.
Our skill in finding ways to reach, and collaborate with the right people, to grow and improve the BitShares ecosystem, is a test of perseverance and imagination at this point.
The future called, and it wants a legacy adapter... let's do this.
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